Meta-analysis of 11,115 metagenomes from 39 countries finds the uncultured bacterial group CAG-170 is consistently more abundant in healthy people and linked to vitamin B12 production and carbohydrate digestion.
Human rights groups report thousands killed or arrested since Jan 8-9 security assaults, with growing accounts of torture, sexual violence and forced confessions as authorities expand the crackdown.
Researchers and business leaders disagree on the speed and scale of AI-driven job losses, existing data cannot yet resolve the debate, and no coordinated public policy response has emerged.
SecurityScorecard STRIKE found more than 135,000 internet-facing OpenClaw instances, many vulnerable to known RCE bugs and linked to prior breaches, driven by unsafe defaults and malicious skills.
A California jury heard opening statements as plaintiff K.G.M. accuses Meta and Google of engineering social media to addict children, while the companies say other factors explain her mental health struggles.
Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft raised capex for 2026 to scale AI compute through massive data center builds, triggering investor unease and a broad tech selloff.
AES Andes formally withdrew the INNA proposal for a 3,000-hectare green hydrogen and ammonia plant near Paranal after environmental review, prompting relief from astronomers and renewed calls for legal protections for Chilean observatories.
Beijing has made AI safety a national priority with new standards, enforcement, and research; experts want Washington to revive bilateral talks and coordinate on high-risk threats like biological misuse and loss of control.
FBI final 2024 data and preliminary 2025 figures show sharp drops in homicides and other major crimes across many cities despite police staffing shortfalls, with researchers pointing to federal pandemic-era local spending and prevention programs as a major factor.
Department of Justice emails released Friday reveal Rowan and other senior Apollo executives corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein between 2011 and 2018 about tax planning, a tax receivable agreement and a proposed inversion, raising questions after Apollo said in 2020 it never did business with Epstein.